There’s a shake-up in the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Once touted as front-runner material, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is in third place in most polls here in Iowa and trails former Vermont Governor Howard Dean in New Hampshire, too. Kerry has fired his national campaign manager and hired the woman who heads Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy’s staff to manage his campaign. Kerry faced the media in the drizzle in Des Moines, and gave a stock answer to the eight different questions reporters asked him about the management shake-up. Kerry says his campaign “is doing absolutely great.” Kerry says he’s gone up in the polls in Iowa and moving up in New Hampshire. Kerry repeatedly said he “wanted to change the dynamics.” But he wouldn’t explain what that means. Kerry says the campaign is entering a “new phase.”
